Congratulations to Claire (P7) Thomas (P5), Lilly (P5), Clara (P2) and Skye (P1) who won prizes in the May Day Art Competition this year. The boys and girls received their prizes at the May Day Celebrations.
Stars of the Week 23 May
P1 Mrs Fulton: A.J. for working hard on his handwriting - it is so neat now! A.J. was also great at remembering all the words for his class assembly.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Colby for super listening and knowing all of his new words. Fabulous Colby!
P1 Miss Armstrong: Oliver for trying to work more independently.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Evan fro writing a super story all by himself.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Aminah - Grace for great progress and effort with Literacy work.
P3 Mr Atcheson: Finn for super work building his dinosaur on Dinosaur Day.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Noah for building a SUPER dinosaur.
P3 Mrs Hunter / Mrs Heawood: Hayden for being a fantastic helper at dinosaur day. Well done!
Merit Badge Winners 23 May
P4 Mr Eves
Bea for a very informative and funny talk on Harry Potter.
Madison for a very detailed great presentation about Lego for her class talk.
P4 Mrs McCartney & Mrs Smith
Rob for preparing and presenting a super talk about Lego.
Kaleb for great presentation of his class talk.
P4 Mrs McKeown
Omar for being a great Moses in his class assembly.
Oskar for a very impressive class talk about Poland.Oskar spoke confidently with lots of facts and detail.
P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Curran
Megan for an excellent talk about G.B.
James for an excellent talk about B.M.X. Biking.
P5 Mr McConnell
Amy & Daanyaal for excellent Nefertiti head pieces
P5 Mrs Brown
Hannah and Matthew for a lovely Cartouche.
P6 Mrs Eves
Tia for always cleaning and washing equipment after craft work.
Bryn for showing good sportsmanship in games.
P6 Mrs Hart
Dawud for participating with enjoyment in the class cricket sessions.
Elsa for a high standard of presentation in all areas of the curriculum.
P7 Mrs Clarke
Charlie & Rishav for good work on a piece of formal writing on the Solar System.
P7 Miss McGuile
Katie for settling in so well to HPS!
Christian for a wonderful drawing of Saturn using oil pastels.
Stars of the Week 16 May
P1 Mrs Fulton: Sam is getting changed so quickly for PE and for working hard to finish his work on time.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Skye foe being a wonderful bride in her class Assembly and for super singing.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Betty for amazing story writing all by herself.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Charlie for fantastic balance and control on BikeIt Day - great cycling!
P2 Miss Dobbin: Jacob for being very enthusiastic during Bike It Day!
P3 Mr Atcheson: Luke for super summarising during his Reciprocal Reading.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Zoe for great facts about dinosaurs.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Antony for being creative when making dinosaur fossils.
End of season awards
It was great to hear from Sam and Noah that so many of our pupils had a lovely Fun Day at Holywood Rugby Club. This was a perfect end to their rugby season.
Two of the Ulster rugby players came along to present them with their medals. Noah and Sam are proudly showing them in this picture!
Well done!
Keep on running!
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Scott & Matthew from P4. Both boys have enjoyed success running the Junior Park run in Belfast Victoria Park each week. The 2K run is a free, fun, timed event (not a race!) for all 4-14year olds, 9.30am every Sunday Morning at various locations around Northern Ireland. More info at www.parkrun.com.
Scott and Matthew have been dedicated runners, achieving their Half Marathon, Marathon and Ultra Marathon wristbands. That’s a massive 100 kilometres distance covered.
The photo shows Scott and Matthew holding their orange Ultra Marathon bands with run director Gary Keenan.
The boys have now run an impressive 71 runs (Scott) & 77 runs (Matthew) each.
We would encourage more HPS pupils to take part. Do ask Scott and Matthew to tell you more about it! Let's RUN FOR FUN!
Merit Badge Winners 9 May
P4 Mr Eves
Jay and Alana for being very helpful when Mr Eves was on the P7 trip to Edinburgh.
P4 Mrs McCartney & Mrs Smith
Laurie and Naomi for doing a great job at tidying Room 15's cloakroom.
P4 Mrs McKeown
Mollie for working hard and making good progress in her reading.
Charlie for looking carefully at a passage and using it to help him answer his comprehension questions.
P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Curran
Erin for always presenting her work so beautifully.
Thomas for amazing numberwork.
P5 Mr McConnell
Daniel and Noah for speaking clearly and at a good pace when presenting their talks on their hobby and interest.
P5 Mrs Brown
Annie and Andrew for giving very informative talks to their class.
P6 Mrs Eves
Hope for always wanting to improve which is especially obvious when she puts in extra effort to learn maths methods and facts .
Ethan for giving good answers during his class Smokebuster workshop.
P6 Mrs Hart
Jamie and Lottie for both putting a super effort in at home to learn their maths facts.
P7 Mrs Clarke
Matthew and Daisie for enthusiastic participation in cricket sessions.
P7 Miss McGuile
Amy-Louise and Charley for fabulous effort during their new ICT project to create a website.
Stars of the Week 10 May
P1 Mrs Fulton: Even though Carl sometimes feels unwell, he is such a hard worker and never complains.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Emmy for super writing and number work.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Leah for always trying her best and being a caring friend.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Emily-Rose for always doing her best work and listening well.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Lucy for always trying her best!
P3 Mr Atcheson: William for super sorting of dinosaurs using Venn Diagrams.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Abbie for wonderful novel reading.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Jayden for trying hard to correctly name 2D and 3D shapes.
Wednesday 2 May
P1 Mrs Fulton: Miller for being one of the best listeners Mrs Fulton has ever taught!
P1 Mrs Elliott: Ethan for super behaviour and excellent number work. He knows all the Story of 5!
P1 Miss Armstrong: Leon is a great caring friend to others.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Isabelle for always working hard!
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Max for excellent effort and improvement with his written work.
P3 Mr Atcheson: Lara for excellent research, finding out lots of interesting facts about dinosaurs.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Luke for fantastic work on speech bubbles!
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Evan for making a super triceratops clay fossil.
Music success at HPS
CONGRATULATIONS to a number of P5, P6 & P7 pupils Jonathan, Oliver, Libby, Bryn and Charley who successfully passed their Grade 1 music exams.
Jonathan - Baritone Oliver - Horn Bryn - Trumpet
Libby & Charley - Clarinet
Thanks to music tutors Mrs Briggs and Mr McCullough and to Miss Riddell for all their support during the year helping the boys and girls achieve their great results!
Merit Badge Winners 25 April
P4 Mr Eves
Esme for great enthusiasm when participating in the Charity Day events.
Nathan for working very hard on his swimming technique and doing lots of widths in the pool.
P4 Mrs McCartney & Mrs Smith
Lily for a very good demonstration of breast stroke during a recent Friday swimming session.
Logan for getting changed at swimming so much faster!
P4 Mrs McKeown
Minnie for a very enthusiastic contribution to the sports Charity Day.
Mason for making a great effort to skip which was one of the P4 group activities during the Charity Day.
P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Curran
Ella for good work using speech marks.
Nathan for good reading.
P5 Mr McConnell
Thomas for always working hard and finishing work on time.
Matthew for making a great start to multiplying by tens!
P5 Mrs Brown
Jessica for joining in and working so hard at Zumba during the Charity Day.
Cameron for trying hard in all areas of the curriculum.
P6 Mrs Eves
Jamie and Jacob for a good systematic approach to finding compound areas.
P6 Mrs Hart
Luke for much improved effort and concentration when completing activities in class.
George for excellent work on compound areas.
P7 Mrs Clarke
Chloe for good work when completing maths activities involving angles.
Jeanie for working hard to use a protractor to measure angles accurately.
P7 Miss McGuile
Jack and Oliver for always participating enthusiastically in Reciprocal Reading lessons.
Stars of the Week 25 April
P1 Mrs Fulton: Hollie for being kind and helpful to others.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Natasha for excellent work and super behaviour.
P1 Miss Armstrong: James for always trying his best.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Ethan for having a mature and sensible attitude.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Sarah for using beautiful neat handwriting.
P3 Mr Atcheson: For great work in his vertical addition in class.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Scarlett for being great fun! Scarlett is full of creative and exciting ideas and stories.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Evan for trying really hard to get his work done on time.
P4 pupils......Highly commended......
We were delighted to hear that a number of our children had been successful in a recent art competitions.
Well done to P4 pupils, Grace and Oskar who were commended for their drawings in the North Down Model Railway Society competition which had almost 1,800 entries.
Stars of the Week 18 April
P1 Mrs Fulton: Christina for sounding out her own sentences. Christina always draws beautiful pictures with her work too!
P1 Mrs Elliott: Archie for listening really well recently. Well done!
P1 Miss Armstrong: Charlie for amazing sounding out all by himself! Charlie can write stories independently.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Jack for excellent effort and improved confidence with his number work.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Olivia for using lots of detail in her writing.
P3 Mr Atcheson: Abi for always trying her best and working very hard.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Molly for working really well on her Literacy activities.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Hayden for doing good addition when completing Tens & Units activities.
Ruby hip hops to the top!
Well done to Ruby(P4) who had a busy day in Dublin at a dance competition. As you can see she did a great performance, coming 1st in her beginners section.A great result, best wishes for the next one!
Going for gold!
Erin won a gold medal with her Rathgael Gymnastics Cheer Squad at the Northern Ireland Cheer Championships. CONGRATULATIONS ERIN, a great achievement!
‘Egg’cellent creativity from P4
Congratulations to our competition winners! Well done to Erin who came first and runners up Daisy, Ruby and Tamara. We really liked your Easter eggs. We hope you enjoyed your real ones too!
HPS Irish dancers, dance their way to the top!
WELL DONE Eva & Georgia. Both girls have been very busy in recent weeks practising for various competitons. Most recently they performed at Portadown Dance Festival.
Eva (P4) came first in two classes, one in heavy jig and the other in two hand.
Georgia (P3) came first in her heavy jig class.
CONGRATULATIONS GIRLS, you should be very proud of yourselves.
Merit Badge Winners 11 April
P4 Mr Eves
Noah and Scott always adding to class discussions on our cold land topic and producing excellent clay models of cold land animals.
P4 Mrs McCartney & Mrs Smith
Roo and Mathew working hard at all times and making excellent clay models of cold land animals.
P4 Mrs McKeown
Ollie for working hard to get his homework down in the mornings and also completing his maths activities. Keep it up Ollie!
Paige for settling in well to P4 and having a great attitude to school and work.
P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Curran
Jonathan for working hard at his music.
Leah for consistent hard work and neat writing.
P5 Mr McConnell
Thomas for settling into life at HPS so well.
Adam for making a great start to using speechmarks.
P5 Mrs Brown
Ben for good improvement in handwriting.
Kieran excellent work in speechmarks.
P6 Mrs Eves
Lucy for working hard on fractions, decimals and percentages.
Mitchel for his valuable contributions to class discussions.
P6 Mrs Hart
Grace for always learning her fact learning homework so thoroughly.
P7 Mrs Clarke
Joeli and Sophie for working hard during maths investigations
P7 Miss McGuile
Emily for wonderful creative writing piece, ensuring to include all three verb tenses.
Lucy for working hard during maths problem solving investigation.
Stars of the Week 11 April
P1 Mrs Fulton: Casey for always working so hard and for having a great imagination at story time.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Joshua for fantastic work and behaviour. Joshua is so kind and helpful.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Juliette for being so caring towards a sad friend who had hurt his cheek.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Leah for great sentences about her Easter News.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Ben for writing super sentences about his Easter holidays.
P3 Mr Atcheson: Jonnie for being a really good friend in class.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Matthew for super speedy work on number bonds.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Ronan for doing great throwing and catching in P.E.